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Hitman: Blood money is supposed to be the best in the series, right? Now go over to the steam's store page for it and take a look at the screenshots shown there. Do you recognize that as the game you've played? Did you tot around with an automatic grenade launcher in plain daylight in a suburban neighbourhood? Did you carry a gun in every single mission? No, right? But marketting has to sell the game and sex and guns is what sells.

So like others have already mentioned above, it's too early to ring the doom bell just because of typical marketting shit trailer. Play before you make a judgement.

Did you read the PC Gamer review posted above? That certainly gives reason to worry.

Tom Francis is well known as a bit of a Hitman lover. I have a feeling (admittedly partially based on early reviews!) it will review well on consoles and people with less experience with the series, but ultimately disappoint people who are more familiar.

I only glanced at the closing remarks and the pie chart in the scans, but that sounds about right. Everything we feared from the marketing is mentioned there and worse (most hits are done through cutscenes!)

Blood Money is one of the greatest games ever made. This is just incredibly disappointing.

One of these days I'm going to stop being suckered into buying a sequel on the basis of its predecessor. Yup, one of these days I'll stop being a colossal idiot, just not today (or rather, the day I decided to preorder this).

One of these days I'm going to stop being suckered into buying a sequel on the basis of its predecessor. Yup, one of these days I'll stop being a colossal idiot, just not today (or rather, the day I decided to preorder this).

Just today I was wondering why I never played Blood Money and thought about pre-ordering. Lucky for me I had a moment of clear thought and figured that I'm better off buying Blood Money for 10 euros, because if Absolution sucks I'll have saved 40 euros. Ha! Blood Money is great btw, but you all knew that already.

Maybe they're just advertising it that way at the moment to grab a bunch of uninitiated, action-worshipping, unlock-chasing gamorz.

There's clearly still some bits in there from previous hitman games. (costumes, leaving behind bombs, hiding people, pushing people down from balconies)
I also think they are marketing it to the mouthbreather market (look at the michael bay edition ff7 remake trailer, holy shit...) and tacked on some batman and SC shit for if you start shooting.

You could mow people down in hitman games before (though you'd generally get owned).

Still , the result is all the same.
They are aiming for a shift in target audience, using an old ip name to try n make a new modern franchise.
It's going to go two ways from here if it's still hitman:

It doesn't sell a million copies: canned.
It sells a million copies: now it's main stream, the next game will be mouthbreather mainstream hitman for the batman/assassin's creed/conviction/gears of war crowd.

My tip: research this game really well when it's out if you want it as a new hitman game. Then accept that it's almost certainly the last real hitman game you (might, if it isn't already turned to shit) ever get.

Isn't Tom Francis the guy that gave Max Payne a 55 and also complained about technical issues?

I don't trust him.

I like Tom Francis and if he gave Max Payne 3 a 55 then I like him even more. Fuck me, but I loathed that game. Never ending cutscenes out the bum and that CRT telly filter being obnoxious. And the story...

I couldn't be more crestfallen after reading the PCG review. I've played and enjoyed everything else in the hitman series- I've beaten every mission as silent assassin- and so I pre-ordered this based on that track record.

Yeah I was pessimistic from the PR hype, but I saw the IOI guys in person at PAX East last year and they claimed that there would still be plenty of open-endedness, and I took them at their word. This really feels like a slap in the face to people who like the series for the patient, thoughtful approach it used to foster.